Also, I believe you can still target ships that are inside nebulae if you have a targetting ROM installed? That way, you can initiate combat at range even though you couldn't initially see anyone on the radar due to nebula stealth.

My targeting program could perfectly track any ship through a nebula, but it couldn't select a new target unless I was practically parked through it before activating.

Behold my avatar, one of the few ships to be drawn out pixel by pixel in the dreaded... Microsoft Paint!
Day 31: "I have successfully completed my time reversal experiment! Muahahaha!!!"
Day 30: "I might have run into a little problem here."

Yeah, this made an escort mission horrendous because the only range at which I could see the Sandstorm Gunships was when they were pretty much on top of the freighters I was guarding. It breaks anything where you need to protect a ship and it decides to fly through a nebula.

JimB wrote:It breaks anything where you need to protect a ship and it decides to fly through a nebula.

The same for primordial gas clouds. I would have lost my Korolov freighter (either literally or to the pirates) if it weren't for the map icon and a repeating weapon.

Behold my avatar, one of the few ships to be drawn out pixel by pixel in the dreaded... Microsoft Paint!
Day 31: "I have successfully completed my time reversal experiment! Muahahaha!!!"
Day 30: "I might have run into a little problem here."